Why are Americans so upset about KD moving to Golden State? I mean, why not if you're a free agent and can join a side capable of winning everything. More a less everyone at the highest level of sports are motivitated by money and / or winning.
You don't need a level playing field in your sport at all, most leagues thrive by having parity, you don't have stories like Leicester in the American leagues because of the salary caps and typically non-dominant eras of franchises. Why can't the over 29 NBA teams now take a lesson from a small club in England, who with less money, less talent, less history, less wages, less development managed to beat the elite.
Leicester deserved to win it all because they developed their talent and playing style for years, scouting already fantastic undervalued players and tuning them to near-pefection like Drinkwater, Mahrez, Vardy. It seems the NBA is so fixated on a draft, on a ranking at 18 years old that development does not take place, where athleticism outweighs technical ability to coaches.
GSW deserve everything they get because they've managed to do everything right in the past few years, the same way Leicester has (but without being gifted future best players,) difference is with Leicester's talents and prospects, they're still not a huge club and can't attract the very best, they still have to fight as underdogs, they still have to sell to bigger teams. That does not happen in the NBA like it does in football, so the other 29 teams have to do something about it, develop a style a team, develop their youth on reasonable contracts so they can reach the bullshit playoff system for their chance of winning.
This is the future the NBA chose by having everything in place for this to happen.
>>69244488
Basketball is very different because each individual player has such a huge impact and there's so much scoring. Pulling a Leicester (park the bus, hoof it, dive in the box for the penalty) just isn't an option in the NBA.
Talent is rarely "developed" in american sports (except for maybe baseball) because there are no lower leagues for people to continue playing and developing. If a player is good enough to get on a team, and doesn't produce or show signs of improving in ~3 years, they're done, and they're off to sell used cars or drugs.
Stories like Vardy's are pretty much unheard of.
>>69244683
Mad bandwagoner detected lol.
Go suck some Arsenal/Liverpoo/United/Chelsea dick.
leicester is movie shit. that stuff never happens here in real life.
>>69244683
>>69244488
Valid points, and i'll add that a real mercato enables each player to go to the team the want to be in, for salary, playstyle or whatever reason pleases them.
This is why some NT are overperforming even with shit Leagues, since all their players are playing the football they like, in the league they like, and in a club reflecting their skills
>park the bus, hoof it, dive in the box for the penalty
There's no way you watched even a single Leicester game. Or maybe just one. (1)
>>69244683
>Pulling a Leicester (park the bus, hoof it, dive in the box for the penalty)
You are so wrong with this it hurts, have you seen Leicester play last season?
Basketball doesn't require any technical ability, you just need to be tall and run fast. The only way to win is to have the best players, there's no countering that strategy.
>>69244876
Leicester literally do play anti-football though, there's no denying that.
>>69244488
>underdog wins once
>HURR DURR GREATEST SEASON EVER
>divegrass
>>69247931
You're an idiot
>>69244796
How the fuck is this possible?.
Like do they sign them straight from highschool?.
Now i know why theres no white guys playing basketball.
They have a physical disadvantage at highschool level and talent can take like a decade to develop.
>>69244796
It's not possible to leave to Europe and come back in NBA later?
>>69244488
>up 3-1 to them
>get btfo by them
>join them because you are too much of a beta to beat them
If he joined any other team I wouldn't care as much. I lost respect for that man.
>>69248602
Sure. Brandon Jennings did that and he is a stick figure that sucks.
>>69248554
no its high school then college sports
but if you aren't good enough in college to get drafted or make a team as soon as you graduate, there is no lower league system where you can still earn money and play so these failed atheletes immediately get real jobs to pay the bills
>>69248602
You retire in Europe or China, no real point in coming back
>>69244488
>you don't have stories like Leicester in the American leagues
Sure we do. The Saints and Red Sox in the last decade alone. Cubs might be another this year. But yeah not so much in NBA. But yeah Durant going to the Warriors (best record in history last yesr) should be illegal. It would be like if Man U, Chelsea, Man City, Arsenal, Liverpool and Hotspur all combined to form one team. England fans would bw irate and rightfully so
>>69247960
Leicester aren't West Brom
Americans are subhumans who gives a shit what they think. They all need to be gassed and banned from our board due to their cringey low tier shitposting and awful opinions
>>69248554
Baseball has multiple develop leagues after high school. 1A, 1A+, 2A, 3A, 4A plus college ball (equivalent to 1A). It's only football that has college as the only development after high school
>>69248946
so basically it's like Man City buying their way to the title?
>>69249063
Sort of.
It's also more disgusting. It'd be like Mahrez or Vardy signing with City after losing both the League and FA cup final to them just 6 weeks ago.
>>69248554
Opps you said basketball. Basketball only has one pro developmental league called D-League. Other than that it's just 1-4 years of college development after high school. But NFL is only one with no development league other than college after high school
>>69248554
they sign them straight from college. only baseball develops them with a well thought out farm team system
>>69249212
Would be more like Vardy, Mahrez and Kante all going to the best team in PL history after coming inches from knocking them out in a playoff after the regular season. Basketball only has 5 people on court so 1 player like Durant (probably the 2nd-best player in World after LeBron...he's like a Messi or prime CR7) is much more influentual than 1 player on a soccer team of 11
